Following publication, the publisher has discovered that the corresponding author submitted false information that compromised the peer-review process. As the scientific integrity of the article cannot be guaranteed, and adhering to the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the publisher therefore retracts the article.
The authors do not agree to this retraction.
This retraction was approved by the Chief Editors of Frontiers in Public Health and the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers.
Summary
Keywords
COVID-19, Coronavirus, pandemic, misinformation, Social Media, infodemic
Citation
Frontiers Editorial Office (2022) Retraction: COVID-19 as an “infodemic” in public health: Critical role of the social media. Front. Public Health 10:1124839. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1124839
Received
15 December 2022
Accepted
15 December 2022
Published
23 December 2022
Approved by
Wulf Rössler, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Volume
10 - 2022
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